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Challenges
Challenges are projects with a particular theme where you can showcase your creativity and imagination. Issued at the beginning of the quilt year, challenges are open to all members. We encourage each of our members to try at least one of our challenges each year. We hope to inspire all of you.
Official President's Challenge
I’m excited to announce this year’s President’s Challenge, and I hope you’re as ready as I am to get creative! For this challenge, you will receive a specific colour palette to inspire your quilt. Here’s how it works.
The Challenge
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. Let’s make this a fun and colourful experience for everyone! Contact Amanda
-- Amanda, President Contact Amanda
The Challenge
- Create a quilt with a minimum size of 24" x 24" using the colour palette I will send you.
- You are welcome to add black, white, or a neutral colour to complement the palette.
- Sign up at the November or December meeting. Deadline to sign up is December 31.
- You will receive an email from me with a colour palette, and the fun will begin!
- All completed quilts are due at our May meeting, where they will be proudly displayed and voted on.
- Important: Please attach a copy of your colour palette to your quilt when you bring it in for display.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. Let’s make this a fun and colourful experience for everyone! Contact Amanda
-- Amanda, President Contact Amanda
Questions & Answers
Q: Can you use more than one fabric of a colour?
A: Yes! You can use as many different fabrics as you like, as long as they’re the right colours. So if you want to make a scrappy quilt, feel free to mix and match fabrics - just make sure they fit within the colour guidelines. The colour palette is what’s limited, not the number of fabrics you use!
Q: Could we change the minimum size from 24 x 24 inches to a perimeter of at least 96 inches? That would make it possible to include table runners and rectangular wall hangings.
A: Table runners and rectangular wall hangings are completely acceptable! The 24'' x 24'' size is mainly for anyone who isn’t inspired to make a 'full-sized' quilt - they can still participate by making a preemie to donate.
Q: Can you use more than one fabric of a colour?
A: Yes! You can use as many different fabrics as you like, as long as they’re the right colours. So if you want to make a scrappy quilt, feel free to mix and match fabrics - just make sure they fit within the colour guidelines. The colour palette is what’s limited, not the number of fabrics you use!
Q: Could we change the minimum size from 24 x 24 inches to a perimeter of at least 96 inches? That would make it possible to include table runners and rectangular wall hangings.
A: Table runners and rectangular wall hangings are completely acceptable! The 24'' x 24'' size is mainly for anyone who isn’t inspired to make a 'full-sized' quilt - they can still participate by making a preemie to donate.
'Informal' President's Challenge
I challenge you to push yourself to try something new! The quilting world is full of endless techniques, and even experienced quilters can find fresh skills to explore. Your challenge is to pick a technique you’ve never tried before, learn it, and create something that showcases your new skill. There are so many resources available to help - books, magazines, YouTube tutorials, classes, and fellow quilters are all great places to start.
For inspiration, you might consider exploring techniques like trapunto, a new method of applique, thread painting, free motion quilting, or something else that piques your interest. If you’re a newer quilter, you could take on a more advanced block or quilt design.
When you share your project at our June meeting, please tell us what you set out to learn, what resources you used, and whether you’d use that technique again in the future. And don’t worry - your project doesn’t need to be finished by then to participate!
-- Amanda, President Contact Amanda
For inspiration, you might consider exploring techniques like trapunto, a new method of applique, thread painting, free motion quilting, or something else that piques your interest. If you’re a newer quilter, you could take on a more advanced block or quilt design.
When you share your project at our June meeting, please tell us what you set out to learn, what resources you used, and whether you’d use that technique again in the future. And don’t worry - your project doesn’t need to be finished by then to participate!
-- Amanda, President Contact Amanda
Past Challenges
2024 Presidents' Summer Challenge
Take a picture of an unfinished project ... you could post it (on our private Facebook page) ... have it completed by September 25th meeting ... just to keep us motivated and in touch during the summer ... have fun
--Anne Cruickshank, Co-president
--Anne Cruickshank, Co-president
2023 Presidents' Summer Challenge
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Our incoming co-presidents, Anne Cruickshank and Joyce Murray have issued a Summer Challenge to make a BAG and bring it to the September meeting.
Use your creativity and imagination to make a bag, any size, any design, any fabric and colour - it's all up to you! Note: The beautiful Tote-Me-Tote bags made in the May workshops are NOT eligible for this challenge. Looking for bag ideas? Check out the large selection of free bag patterns on the allpeoplequilt.com web site - includes the bags pictured here and many more! |
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PAST CHALLENGES
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2022-2023 ADQG Challenge
There is one guild challenge this year since there are several other similar guild activities underway with the early target date of our quilt show at the end of April.
The challenge is related to the Mystery Quilt project and it is to:
"Use the scraps from your Mystery Quilt project to make something else such as a table runner or a table topper or anything of your choice."
If you have any questions please contact Emma Russell or Mary DeVries.
-- Emma Russell and Mary deVries
The challenge is related to the Mystery Quilt project and it is to:
"Use the scraps from your Mystery Quilt project to make something else such as a table runner or a table topper or anything of your choice."
If you have any questions please contact Emma Russell or Mary DeVries.
-- Emma Russell and Mary deVries
CQA Guild Challenge
As a guild member of the Canadian Quilters' Association (CQA) we are entitled to submit one entry from our guild to this year's CQA Member Guild Challenge.
The quilts from all of the guilds will be judged and displayed at Quilt Canada in Halifax June 8-10 2023. We hope that our guild will be represented there.
Will YOU take up this challenge?
THE “SUN, SAND, AND SEA” CHALLENGE
• Please choose fabric colours (plain or patterned) that include Yellow, Blue, and Sand (i.e. taupe, beige or even coral) on the front of the quilt.
• The quilt perimeter is to be no larger than 72 inches.
• Each quilt must be finished with either binding, facings, or enveloped pillow-case style.
• There must be a hanging sleeve, at least 3 inches wide, for display purposes.
• All quilts must have a label on the back with the quilt name and quilter’s name visible on it.
• Each CQA/ACC Member Guild selects one winner only from their Guild’s membership, before April 30, 2023, for entry into this challenge.
All details about this challenge are here.
Note: The CQA offers additional Quilt challenges for individual quilters. Click/tap here for information about all of the Quilt Canada challenges.
Will YOU take up this challenge?
THE “SUN, SAND, AND SEA” CHALLENGE
• Please choose fabric colours (plain or patterned) that include Yellow, Blue, and Sand (i.e. taupe, beige or even coral) on the front of the quilt.
• The quilt perimeter is to be no larger than 72 inches.
• Each quilt must be finished with either binding, facings, or enveloped pillow-case style.
• There must be a hanging sleeve, at least 3 inches wide, for display purposes.
• All quilts must have a label on the back with the quilt name and quilter’s name visible on it.
• Each CQA/ACC Member Guild selects one winner only from their Guild’s membership, before April 30, 2023, for entry into this challenge.
All details about this challenge are here.
Note: The CQA offers additional Quilt challenges for individual quilters. Click/tap here for information about all of the Quilt Canada challenges.
2021-2022 Challenges
The 2020-2022 Covid Challenge and the 2021-2022 President's Challenge projects described below were displayed and voted on at our guild meeting in the park on June 28 2022. Photos and Story
President's Challenge
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Drunkard’s Path Block variations! Members are challenged to create a quilt using the Drunkard's Path units. And, for fun, add a bit of emerald green to commemorate our guild’s 20th anniversary. The Drunkard's Path is a traditional block that features curved piecing. We look forward to seeing your interpretation of the Drunkard's Path block in this challenge! |
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Rules:
Here is a helpful link that I found: The History of the Drunkard's Path Block.
Have fun! Questions? Contact Vickie MacNabb
- All entries must include multiple Drunkard's Path units.
- Must use some of the color emerald green. The color is to be easily identified on the front face of the quilt. Use as much or as little as you like.
- All entries are to measure more than 24" square.
- No clothing, bags, or accessories. Quilt is to be completed, quilted, and bound. Quilt must have a top, batting, back, quilting and completed binding.
- Only the front of the quilt will be displayed for voting.
- One entry per member.
- If using a designer pattern, please credit your source.
- Due at the June 2022 guild meeting.
Here is a helpful link that I found: The History of the Drunkard's Path Block.
Have fun! Questions? Contact Vickie MacNabb
Covid Challenge 2020-2022
The challenge: Make something completely from scraps. No shopping allowed. I suppose it doesn`t have to be scraps, as long as you used up material you had on hand.
-- Joyce Murray, Program Committee 2020-2021
2019-2020 Challenges
The 2019-2020 Challenge projects described below were displayed and voted on in an informal outdoor get together in September 2020. Photos and story
The 2019-2020 Challenge projects described below were displayed and voted on in an informal outdoor get together in September 2020. Photos and story
Black and White Secret Block Challenge
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To participate in this challenge we need you to sign up at the September meeting and you will be placed in groups. You will make 9 1/2" unfinished blocks with your black and white fabric, one for each member of your group. We ask that you have these blocks ready for the December meeting. You will then give each member of your group one of your blocks, thus in turn, you will receive a new block from each member. You are then asked to put these blocks together in a quilt project and you may add no more than 2 colours/fabrics to your quilt. The due date for this project is the June meeting when the members will vote on their favorite project. -- Sue Hodgins |
Sample block
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Sample block
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Gateway to Adventure - CQA Member Guild Challenge
This is a Canadian Quilters' Association (CQA) challenge for its member guilds. One lucky member of our guild will have your project on display at Quilt Canada in June 2020 in Edmonton!
This year the theme is “Gateway to Adventure”. Each quilt must have a visible amount of Kona Cotton, colour K001-147 JUNGLE, and can have up to three additional fabrics on the face of the quilt. Additional fabric can be a print or solid. The quilt perimeter is to be no larger than 72 inches.
Please refer to the Quilt Canada web site for more information about all of the requirements for these quilts (e.g. finishing, hanging sleeve, label etc.) There is also a Printable Version of this information.
Do check out (and be inspired by!) the CQA Member Guild Challenge 2019 "Quilting goes Viral" quilts that were on display at Quilt Canada 2019 in Ottawa.
If you would like to participate in this challenge, please advise Sue Hodgins, ideally by December.
Note: Projects were due at our March 2020 guild meeting, but due to the Covid-19 related meeting cancellation, other arrangements will be made. Due to the cancellation of Quilt Canada 2020, a virtual show of the CQA Member Challenge will be held. Please contact the guild if you have any questions about this.
Note that the actual fabric may be a slightly different shade than in this electronic image.
This year the theme is “Gateway to Adventure”. Each quilt must have a visible amount of Kona Cotton, colour K001-147 JUNGLE, and can have up to three additional fabrics on the face of the quilt. Additional fabric can be a print or solid. The quilt perimeter is to be no larger than 72 inches.
Please refer to the Quilt Canada web site for more information about all of the requirements for these quilts (e.g. finishing, hanging sleeve, label etc.) There is also a Printable Version of this information.
Do check out (and be inspired by!) the CQA Member Guild Challenge 2019 "Quilting goes Viral" quilts that were on display at Quilt Canada 2019 in Ottawa.
If you would like to participate in this challenge, please advise Sue Hodgins, ideally by December.
Note: Projects were due at our March 2020 guild meeting, but due to the Covid-19 related meeting cancellation, other arrangements will be made. Due to the cancellation of Quilt Canada 2020, a virtual show of the CQA Member Challenge will be held. Please contact the guild if you have any questions about this.
Note that the actual fabric may be a slightly different shade than in this electronic image.
President's Challenge
Please bring one metre of one fabric to the October meeting. Write your name on a piece of paper and pin it to the fabric. At the October meeting I will be collecting them, and then giving you back a bag of fabrics at the November meeting. You will then use those fabrics, plus up to two other solid colours of your choosing, to make a project which we will view and judge at our June finale meeting. It can be a quilt, a bag, a wall-hanging, it can be whatever you wish.
- Frank McCarron, President
Blue Block Party Challenge
We would like to see every member construct one block for this challenge. We plan to use the blocks to make charity quilts but this is a little different We have provided most of the fabric for you to use. We include one white piece thirteen inches square, just in case you want to do an applique block, Also included are two blues. Please include these fabrics in your block.
But, you can use more fabric of your own, so long as it matches. Then any pattern is encouraged. Think of the possibilities. The only other requirement: make a 12 1/2 inch unfinished block. More kits are available. Due at the January meeting. Have fun!! -- Joyce Murray |